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As a black girl I’m way more interested in how mothers, grandmothers and sisters think we should respond to the protests, anger and distrust in Ferguson, Mo., after the killing of Michael Brown.
This law, which seems at first like bait for women’s safety activists, fits a recent history of homophobia and criminalizing homosexuality in Nigeria.
Moroccan activists met in Fez last week to learn how to use an online database of women’s rights court decisions. They hope it will help propel reforms that were too late for Amina Filali, the teen who killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist.